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Dawes Act

Great Seal of the United States

Other short titlesDawes Severalty Act of 1887

Long titleAn Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.

NicknamesGeneral Allotment Act of 1887

Enacted bythe 49th United States Congress

EffectiveFebruary 8, 1887

Citations

Public law49-119

Statutes at Large24 Stat. 388

Codification

Titles amended25 U.S.C.: Indians

U.S.C. sections created25 U.S.C. ch. 9 § 331 et seq.

Legislative history

Introduced in the Senate by Henry L. Dawes (R–MA)

Signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on February 8, 1887

Poster

The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887),[1][2] authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship. The Dawes Act was amended in 1891, in 1898 by the Curtis Act, and again in 1906 by the Burke Act.

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